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Mastering CSS Grid

Mastering CSS Grid

By : Pascal Thormeier
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Mastering CSS Grid

Mastering CSS Grid

4.6 (10)
By: Pascal Thormeier

Overview of this book

CSS Grid has revolutionized web design by filling a long-existing gap in creating real, dynamic grids on the web. This book will help you grasp these CSS Grid concepts in a step-by-step way, empowering you with the knowledge and skills needed to design beautiful and responsive grid-based layouts for your web projects. This book provides a comprehensive coverage of CSS Grid by taking you through both fundamental and advanced concepts with practical exercises. You'll learn how to create responsive layouts and discover best practices for incorporating grids into any design. As you advance, you'll explore the dynamic interplay between CSS Grid and flexbox, culminating in the development of a usable responsive web project as a reference for further improvement. You'll also see how frameworks utilize CSS Grid to construct reusable components and learn to rebuild and polyfill CSS Grid for browsers that don't fully support it yet. The concluding chapters include a quick reference and cheat sheet, making this book an indispensable resource for frontend developers of all skill levels. By the end of this book, you'll have thoroughly explored all aspects of CSS Grid and gained expert-level proficiency, enabling you to craft beautiful and functional layouts for web projects of any size.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Part 1–Working with CSS Grid
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Part 2 – Understanding the CSS Grid Periphery
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Part 3 – Exploring the Wider Ecosystem
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Part 4 – A Quick Reference

Understanding and Creating Responsive and Fluid Grid Layouts

After learning about advanced grid structures and concepts and how to align individual elements, or even the entire grid content, the next concept to conquer is responsiveness. Since the invention of smartphones (and no, we do not mean the 1994 IBM Simon, which predates the first CSS release by a full 2 years!), more screen sizes have emerged.

I remember when specific versions of websites were developed for smartphones and even tablets once those started to become a thing. I remember some apps even having specific domains for their mobile versions. Nowadays, we use the same website for all devices and let CSS make the adjustments for us.

And let’s also be thankful that the times of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), used to transfer web content to cellphones such as the Nokia 6310 from 2001, are over…

In detail, this chapter covers the following topics:

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